Numerical Manipulation of Digital Holograms for 3-D Imaging and Display: An Overview

In the last two decades, thanks to the considerable technological development of solid-state sensors, digital holography (DH) has gained credits as the elective imaging technique for applications in various research fields, e.g., material science, biotechnology, as well as a diagnostic tool for applications at lab-on-a-chip scale. However, since its beginning, the intrinsic coherent nature of holography made 3-D imaging and display one of its preferred applications. Still today, several research groups around the world are working to develop novel numerical solutions in the framework of DH-based 3-D imaging and display technology. In this paper, we report an overview of the most important contributions given to this field over the last years.